Stressed liquid-crystal optical phased array for fast tip-tilt wavefront correction

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 36, 2005, Pages 7754-7759

  Wang, Bin ^a   Zhang, Guoqiang ^a   Glushchenko, Anatoliy ^a   West, John L ^a   Bos, Philip J ^a   McManamon, Paul F ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; STEERING; WAVEFRONTS;

BEAM-STEERING; PHASED-ARRAY TECHNOLOGY; STRESSED LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 32344446554     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007754     Document Type: Article

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